Federal judge denies permit to ANSWER Coalition and UfPJ for Central Park rally.

A federal judge refused Monday to allow a large rally on Central Park’s Great Lawn during the Republican National Convention, but urged protesters and the city to work toward a compromise.

What a load of liberal malarky. If the judge really wanted a “compromise”, he could have ordered it. Instead he wrings in hands in anguish and does nothing. And how, pray tell, can there be a compromise on a Central Park rally - either it occurs or it doesn’t.

Pauley also concurred with the city’s concern that the Saturday rally by at least 75,000 people — and another for 250,000 people on Sunday by United for Peace and Justice — could ruin the Great Lawn.

Omigod, you mean people might walk on the grass on a park? Oh, the horror…. 

During arguments Friday, Brian Becker, national coordinator for the ANSWER coalition, characterized the Great Lawn as “the heart and soul of New York City,” a symbolic civil rights rally point on the 41st anniversary of the 1963 civil rights march on Washington led by Martin Luther King Jr.  

UfPJ has a state court case pending, also for a Central Park rally, with the decision expected Wed. or Thu. However the chances of a state judge overruling the precedent set by this federal judge are, I think, slim and none.

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Leftie elves have been busy

Leftie elves hacked into Protest Warrior, a group of right wing zealots who are long on right wing ranting and happily woefully lacking when it comes to organizing ability. The hackers sent email titled “Protest Warrior Hacked: Operation Right-wing Circle Jerk” to all PW members using the email address of Kfir, one of the leaders. It explained the site been hacked, implied that all online information had been compromised, and displayed the leaders passwords, addresses and phone numbers. And then helpfully listed the leftie groups organizing in NYC, signing off with “ProtestWarriors, give up! We have you surrounded and outnumbered. See you on the streets.”

Among the sites they listed:

Electronic civil disobedience against the RNC

Several organizations and individuals have pledged to commit acts of electronic civil disobedience against a variety of right-wing, corporate media, and government websites. While we will not be participating in such activities ourselves, we will be reporting on the latest updates of these attacks by mirroring press releases, interviewing various hackers, and informing the media about the campaign.

RNC Not Welcome

CounterConvention

PS I’m told Madison Square Garden, where the RNC will meet, is now surrounded by fences, barbed wire, and looks like a military encampment. What a vision of freedom for the world to view…

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Flinging the foul mud of Vietnam

John Kerry returned a hero. The smears his political enemies are now flinging mark them — not him — as beneath contempt.

From Business Week, of all places.

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First they came for the Communists

This poem is famous. Martin Niemoller who wrote it in 1945, less so.

First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.

Niemoller was a German u-boat captain in WW I. He became a pastor and turned against Hitler very early, in 1933.

Something is missed if one doesn’t understand that the words come from a man who also declared that he “would rather burn his church to the ground, than to preach the Nazi trinity of ‘race, blood, and soil.’”

In 1934, he was one of the leading organizers at the Barmen Synod, which produced the theological basis for the Confessing Church, which despite its persecution became an enduring symbol of German resistance to Hitler.

He survived two concentration camps, narrowly escaped execution, and after the war, was an active pacifist and religious figure. He died in 1984 at age 92, peacefully and of old age.

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